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    Anxiety surges as Donald Trump may be indicted soon: Why 2024 is 'the final battle' and 'the big one'​

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    Anxiety surges as Donald Trump may be indicted soon: Why 2024 is 'the final battle' and 'the big one'

    Donald Trump's many legal problems – and calls for protests – have generated new fears of political violence and anxiety about the 2024 election.
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    WASHINGTON – It looks like American politics is entering a new age of anxiety, triggered by an unprecedented legal development: The potential indictment of a former president and current presidential candidate.

    Donald Trump's many legal problems – and calls for protests by his followers – have generated new fears of political violence and anxiety about the unknowable impact all this will have on the already-tense 2024 presidential election

    I’ll reframe this is a more accurate way, Are Presidents above the law? This new age was spurred into existence when home grown dummies elected a corrupt, mentally ill, anti-democratic, would be dictator as President and don’t bother to hold him responsible for his crimes, don’t want to because in the ensuing mayhem and destruction, they think they will be better off. The man is actually advocating violence (not the first time). And btw, screw democracy too. If this feeling spreads, we are In deep shirt.

    This goes beyond one treasonous Peice of work and out to all his minions. This is on you or should we be sympathetic to the idea of they can’t help being selfish suckers to the Nation’s detriment? Donald Trump is the single largest individual threat to our democracy and it‘s all going to boil down to will the majority of the GOP return to his embrace and start slinging his excrement to support him?
     
    Sendai said:
    Joe was point man on Ukraine for Obama. Hunter gets a million a year from an Ukraine business. I’ll go with subtle corruption.

    Joe is lead senator on MBNA’s push for bankruptcy reform. Hunter gets a $100,000 a year consulting free. I’ll go with subtle corruption.

    Joe takes Hunter to China. Hunter gets $millions. I’ll go with subtle corruption.
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    Donald Trump appointed his son-in-law to an official White House position, overriding concerns about nepotism and pushing through a security clearance even after it was initially denied. Just two weeks after leaving this position, his son-in-law secured a $2 billion investment from the Saudi Crown Prince's fund, despite the fund's administrators publicly advising against the deal.

    So you worry about Hunter who had no official position and who did real advisory work for Burisma but not a peep about jared and Ivanka? Neither worked for the Saudi or China but both received huge sums or trademarks although they held official US positions.
     
    Dragon said:
    Donald Trump appointed his son-in-law to an official White House position, overriding concerns about nepotism and pushing through a security clearance even after it was initially denied. Just two weeks after leaving this position, his son-in-law secured a $2 billion investment from the Saudi Crown Prince's fund, despite the fund's administrators publicly advising against the deal.

    So you worry about Hunter who had no official position and who did real advisory work for Burisma but not a peep about jared and Ivanka? Neither worked for the Saudi or China but both received huge sums or trademarks although they held official US positions.
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    With real policy consequences and personal benefit.

    foreignpolicy.com

    The Qatar Blockade Is Over, but the Gulf Crisis Lives On

    Efforts at regional reconciliation have done nothing to address the core differences that divide Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain.
    foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com

    Somehow, some way, Jared's money pit with a billion in Chinese debt, was punched via some Canadian firm. It was later revealed to be qatarian. Holy cow!!!

    But Hunter!
     
    Elon Musk is too rich to care about making more money, a GOP governor claimed during an interview on Sunday.

    Chris Sununu made the bold assertion on CNN’s State of the Union as he sat down for an interview with co-host Dana Bash.

    The New Hampshire Republican is one of the few holdouts in his party who remain in office without fully embracing the MAGA brand — though Sununu has been far more deferential than others like him.

    The CNN host questioned Sununu during their interview about whether Musk, whose companies have won lucrative government contracts, faced a conflict of interest by serving as a close adviser to the incoming president.

    He told Bash that the Twitter and Tesla chief was “so rich he's removed from the potential financial influence” of serving as an adviser to Donald Trump in the White House.

    Musk, along with failed Republican primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, is set to run the “Department of Government Efficiency,” likely taking the form of a presidential advisory council, with the stated purpose of making suggestions to Trump on cost-cutting measures.

    The position will have no direct authority, nor will Trump over the federal budget — which is written by Congress, and approved or vetoed by the president.

    Sununu also lashed out at progressives and liberal Democrats for criticism of the staggering net worth of Trump’s incoming Cabinet, which the president-elect’s critics argue is indicative of an administration set to primarily benefit the wealthiest Americans and not working-class familes.

    “I don’t mind that they’re billionaires; I like people that are successful,” the governor told CNN. “What’s the difference if they are a billionaire or they are broke? I’d rather have someone that is successful.”…….


    www.independent.co.uk

    GOP governor claims Elon Musk is too rich to have any conflicts of interest

    Sununu says Trump’s ultra-wealthy Cabinet is a good thing, and denies Musk is in it for the money
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
     
    Allies and aides to Donald Trump should be increasingly concerned by Elon Musk’s proximity to and influence on the US president-elect, the Yale historian and bestselling author Timothy Snyder said.

    “Trump is a little guy, and Musk is a big guy when it actually comes to having money,” Snyder said. “And I think if you were a friend of Trump, you would be worried.”

    The author of bestsellers including On Tyranny (2017) and On Freedom (2024) was speaking to the Guardian about issues including his work in Ukraine, where he has teamed up with the Star Wars actor Mark Hamill to raise funds to buy robots to clear landmines laid by Russian invaders.


    But as Trump prepares to take power in Washington, and promises new policy on US support for Ukraine most expect to heavily favor Vladimir Putin and Russia, Snyder also considered what the coming Trump administration may mean closer to home.

    Snyder expects that Trump’s soon-to-be home, the White House, will be a stage for uncomfortable and damaging discord between the president-elect and his most powerful ally, the world’s richest man.

    “I think we overestimate Trump and we underestimate Musk,” Snyder said. “People can’t help but think that Trump has money, but he doesn’t. He’s never really had money. He’s never even really claimed to have money. His whole notion is that you have to believe that he has money. But he’s never been able to pay his own debts. He’s never been able to finance his own campaigns.

    “Musk, with an amount of money that was meaningless to him, was able to finance Trump’s campaign, essentially.”

    As owner of businesses including Tesla, SpaceX and X (the social media platform formerly known as Twitter), Musk poured millions of dollars into supporting Trump in his presidential election campaign against the Democratic nominee, the current vice-president, Kamala Harris. Musk was widely reported to have been a key influence in Trump naming the Ohio senator JD Vance as his vice-presidential pick.…….

    www.theguardian.com

    ‘Trump is a little guy, Musk is a big guy’: historian predicts trouble for president-elect

    Timothy Snyder says world’s richest man is likely to exert uncomfortable influence over White House
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    Elon Musk is too rich to care about making more money, a GOP governor claimed during an interview on Sunday.

    Chris Sununu made the bold assertion on CNN’s State of the Union as he sat down for an interview with co-host Dana Bash.

    The New Hampshire Republican is one of the few holdouts in his party who remain in office without fully embracing the MAGA brand — though Sununu has been far more deferential than others like him.

    The CNN host questioned Sununu during their interview about whether Musk, whose companies have won lucrative government contracts, faced a conflict of interest by serving as a close adviser to the incoming president.

    He told Bash that the Twitter and Tesla chief was “so rich he's removed from the potential financial influence” of serving as an adviser to Donald Trump in the White House.

    Musk, along with failed Republican primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, is set to run the “Department of Government Efficiency,” likely taking the form of a presidential advisory council, with the stated purpose of making suggestions to Trump on cost-cutting measures.

    The position will have no direct authority, nor will Trump over the federal budget — which is written by Congress, and approved or vetoed by the president.

    Sununu also lashed out at progressives and liberal Democrats for criticism of the staggering net worth of Trump’s incoming Cabinet, which the president-elect’s critics argue is indicative of an administration set to primarily benefit the wealthiest Americans and not working-class familes.

    “I don’t mind that they’re billionaires; I like people that are successful,” the governor told CNN. “What’s the difference if they are a billionaire or they are broke? I’d rather have someone that is successful.”…….


    www.independent.co.uk

    GOP governor claims Elon Musk is too rich to have any conflicts of interest

    Sununu says Trump’s ultra-wealthy Cabinet is a good thing, and denies Musk is in it for the money
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
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    Sununu is naive. I have heard rumblings that Eloon wants to be the first trillionaire. Beyond that, it is not about money although that is the method of keeping score, it is about power over money which inevitably leads to having more money.
     

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